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I Don't Like Your Tie @dontlikeyourtie.bsky.social · Apr 18
🔥 SO WHERE IS GEORGE MARTIN'S TIE NOW?!🔥

Our long-term associate Solo Travel Expert @mikeprowsestp.bsky.social has been ON THE CASE.

Perfect Bank Holiday listening for the Beatle fan who KNOWS George Harrison owned a microscope.

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MIKE PROWSE SPECIAL: I DON'T LIKE YOUR TIE
During a crucial session in June 1962 George Harrison made a joke about George Martin's tie. It gave the EMI man a hint of the cheekily approachable sass which would beguile the world. And now - Marc
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PETE BEST: At the end of it all he says to us ‘Is there anything you don’t like?’ There’s this pause then George comes back ‘Yeah – I don’t like your tie.’ We all thought this was pretty funny and I remember we started laughing but Joe did not like this – suddenly went into a rage. Never been talked to in this way. Who did we think we were? ‘Matchbox music’, whatever that is. I remember he was so cross he kicked the table and the teacups went flying. After a bit he calms down and says he’s prepared to overlook George’s remark and give us a chance. He’s got this tune for us, ‘Telstar’. So we go away and learn it then record it with him a few weeks later. We didn’t put a lot of effort into it to be honest as we thought our own stuff was better. That could be why it flopped, to be fair. So he dropped us. Not long after that Joe asks me if I want to sign on with him as a solo act – he thinks I’ve ‘got something’. So I signed. The others went back to playing the halls up in Liverpool – got one of their old drummers to take my place. I put out a string of discs over the next few years with Joe, and some of them did really well. When he died in 1967 I thought ‘I’ve had it’ but with a couple of contacts I’d made in the industry I got on the cabaret circuit and ended up pretty successful. Within a few years I was doing well enough to take on my own full-time backing band so I thought ‘Why not?’ and The Beatles became my group. I still let them do ‘Love Me Do’ once in a while, for old times’ sake.
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I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:

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PETE BEST: At the end of it all he says to us ‘Is there anything you don’t like?’ There’s this pause then George comes back ‘Yeah – I don’t like your tie.’ We all thought this was pretty funny and I remember we started laughing but Joe did not like this – suddenly went into a rage. Never been talked to in this way. Who did we think we were? ‘Matchbox music’, whatever that is. I remember he was so cross he kicked the table and the teacups went flying. After a bit he calms down and says he’s prepared to overlook George’s remark and give us a chance. He’s got this tune for us, ‘Telstar’. So we go away and learn it then record it with him a few weeks later. We didn’t put a lot of effort into it to be honest as we thought our own stuff was better. That could be why it flopped, to be fair. So he dropped us. Not long after that Joe asks me if I want to sign on with him as a solo act – he thinks I’ve ‘got something’. So I signed. The others went back to playing the halls up in Liverpool – got one of their old drummers to take my place. I put out a string of discs over the next few years with Joe, and some of them did really well. When he died in 1967 I thought ‘I’ve had it’ but with a couple of contacts I’d made in the industry I got on the cabaret circuit and ended up pretty successful. Within a few years I was doing well enough to take on my own full-time backing band so I thought ‘Why not?’ and The Beatles became my group. I still let them do ‘Love Me Do’ once in a while, for old times’ sake.
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First real revelation to me -- how without the harmonies, "I've Just Seen A Face" is *very* obviously a skiffle song. It sounds just like Lonnie Donegan. It's the chorus harmonies that make it sound country.
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Spoiler alert: The Beatles Anthology 2025 Episode 9- what’s new?
By Mike Carrera Episode 9 of the upcoming Anthology video on Disney+, running 52 minutes, is edited in the same style as the original eight, interspersing separate interviews with George, Paul, Rin…
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Because we took a long, long, long time recording it, our episode on Concert for George, guest starring @stevenc63.bsky.social, is in two parts, and part 2 is out on Monday! We'll talk about the standout performances, and in particular Paul and Ringo's contributions.
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BERT KAEMPFERT: After the session they came over to where the recording machine had been situated. I can still see them now, sitting around on those rickety chairs they always have in schools; Tony at the front, John and Paul behind him, George behind them and poor little Pete at the back. I gave them a bit of a talking to I must admit. I told them it was unprofessional to turn up to a recording session looking like you hadn’t slept, their drummer had been so unsure of himself I’d had to take half his kit away, and that instrumental of theirs hadn’t been up to much. At the end of it all I said ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Is there anything you’re not happy with?’ George leaned round the side of John so he was looking me in the eye and said ‘Yes. I don’t like your tie.’ I thought this was a great joke and started to laugh but Tony glared at me and I stopped. Tony had…a reputation. Apparently in one fight he tied John Lennon’s legs in a knot. An actual knot.
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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BERT KAEMPFERT: After the session they came over to where the recording machine had been situated. I can still see them now, sitting around on those rickety chairs they always have in schools; Tony at the front, John and Paul behind him, George behind them and poor little Pete at the back. I gave them a bit of a talking to I must admit. I told them it was unprofessional to turn up to a recording session looking like you hadn’t slept, their drummer had been so unsure of himself I’d had to take half his kit away, and that instrumental of theirs hadn’t been up to much. At the end of it all I said ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Is there anything you’re not happy with?’ George leaned round the side of John so he was looking me in the eye and said ‘Yes. I don’t like your tie.’ I thought this was a great joke and started to laugh but Tony glared at me and I stopped. Tony had…a reputation. Apparently in one fight he tied John Lennon’s legs in a knot. An actual knot.
November 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Now LIVE on tape from London and Belfast, it's part 1 of our episode on Concert for George, featuring @stevenc63.bsky.social of Nothing Is Real.

🍏Steven talks about the reverent atmosphere in the room
🍏Why didn't Bob Dylan or John Cleese show up?
🍏George's death and the cruel onward march of time!
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Season 2, Episode 1
TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS

I'm joined by Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do Is Music, and music professor Joel Friedman, who share their insights and help me explore how the Beatles' created one of their most innovative recordings podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0...
017 Tomorrow Never Knows
Podcast Episode · Producing The Beatles · 11/10/2025 · 42m
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SIR JOSEPH LOCKWOOD: Once George became head of Parlophone I saw much more of him. We had a weekly meeting in the diary and they were pretty much exclusively very happy, cordial occasions. Just one stands out in my memory as a time when I had cause to haul George over the coals somewhat. It must have been early summer 1962. June, probably. It was the silliest thing, really: each member of management had their own parking space outside the building. George’s was next to mine and he always parked his car in such a slapdash fashion, almost diagonally across the space, that when I arrived I sometimes couldn’t park in my own space. As you can imagine this started to become a bit of a bugbear for me. He started off the meeting with the usual stuff – he’d had some band in from Liverpool who he said were ‘very funny’, which I thought was a bit odd, he’d done a string arrangement for Matt Monroe’s new one, and so on. When finished talking the parking thing was still on my mind and I’m afraid I rather let him have it. ‘Inconsiderate, thoughtless behaviour’…’lack of professionalism’…’typical of your conduct over the years’ and so on. At the end of all this I said to him ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Anything you’re not happy with?’ George looked at me with a gleam in his eye and said ‘Yes, I don’t like your tie.’ Then he started laughing. It was quite extraordinary. I don’t know why, but I started laughing too, and we both decided to go down to the canteen for a coffee. After that I had the parking spaces re-painted to make George’s diagonal to the others, which he thought was hilarious.
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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SIR JOSEPH LOCKWOOD: Once George became head of Parlophone I saw much more of him. We had a weekly meeting in the diary and they were pretty much exclusively very happy, cordial occasions. Just one stands out in my memory as a time when I had cause to haul George over the coals somewhat. It must have been early summer 1962. June, probably. It was the silliest thing, really: each member of management had their own parking space outside the building. George’s was next to mine and he always parked his car in such a slapdash fashion, almost diagonally across the space, that when I arrived I sometimes couldn’t park in my own space. As you can imagine this started to become a bit of a bugbear for me. He started off the meeting with the usual stuff – he’d had some band in from Liverpool who he said were ‘very funny’, which I thought was a bit odd, he’d done a string arrangement for Matt Monroe’s new one, and so on. When finished talking the parking thing was still on my mind and I’m afraid I rather let him have it. ‘Inconsiderate, thoughtless behaviour’…’lack of professionalism’…’typical of your conduct over the years’ and so on. At the end of all this I said to him ‘You’ve heard a lot from me. Anything you’re not happy with?’ George looked at me with a gleam in his eye and said ‘Yes, I don’t like your tie.’ Then he started laughing. It was quite extraordinary. I don’t know why, but I started laughing too, and we both decided to go down to the canteen for a coffee. After that I had the parking spaces re-painted to make George’s diagonal to the others, which he thought was hilarious.
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Its May 1963, Beatles are in the Playhouse Theatre caff readying themselves to record a radio session. Ringo is perusing issue 37 of Private Eye. Exciting times.
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BILLBOARD MAGAZINE 06/08/24 SHOTS FIRED! The ongoing beef between two of rap’s biggest names shows no sign of letting up. Drake and Kendrick Lamar have been trading barbs since the latter took aim on Big Sean’s Control in 2013. From accusations of marital infidelity, to cultural appropriation and underage sex – nothing has been off limits. But Kendrick Lamar has just taken things up a notch with the release of “Knot Like Us”. In the blistering seven-minute track K Dot throws any prospect of a truce out of the window, detailing in a series of vicious bars how he doesn’t like Drake’s tie. The lyrics, which we have decided not to reproduce, include detailed descriptions of the occasions Drizzy has worn the tie, its color, its horse pattern, and its width. Having set out the nature of the tie, Lamar then graphically states that he doesn’t like it. An accompanying video shows Lamar viciously beating a giant tie-shaped piñata with a stick. Appalled commentators and industry figures, many no strangers to incendiary rap rivalries, immediately rallied around Drake, with legendary producer Metro Boomin’ releasing a statement saying: “There is no place for this in the game and our thoughts are with Drizzy at this time. Everyone is with Drake on this. Criticising a fellow rapper’s tie is just…that’s too much.” While threats to kill, allegations of sexual impropriety and references to domestic violence are rife in rap, this is thought to be the first time that a performer has ‘gone there’. Welcoming the decision of prominent rap stations not to play the track, a tearful Drake called a press conference yesterday, stating: “Knockabout references to murder are one thing. But this has absolutely knocked me for six. I’m flabbergasted.” The incident has reminded many rap historians of Tupac Shakur dissing Notorious BIG’s belt on the track “Accessory to Murder”.
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Now LIVE: our episode on Paul Is Dead, a German drama in which a boy in 1980 becomes fixated on the idea that Paul McCartney died in 1966.

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[64] I met a traveller from an antique band, Who said – “One long and shapeless strip of silk Hangs in the studio… Near it, by the desk, Half cut, a famed producer lies, whose shirt, And trouser crease and finely parted hair, Betray his sense of hurt sartorial pride. His ‘50s style, and fashionable report, Now savaged by this youngest Beatle, George. And on the session tape these words appear: “My name is George H Martin, King of Kings; Look on my Works ye Mighty and despair!” Around him, albums lie. Those records spake: Jim Dale. The Temperance Seven. Bernard Cribbins. Charlie Drake. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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PAUL McCARTNEY: In the early days I used to treat George a bit like a kid brother. ‘Pipe down son, the grown-ups are talking’, y’know? That all changed when George made his famous joke about George Martin’s tie. That moment was just like…’Wow’, y’know? To take such a tense situation, at the end of a session which maybe hadn’t been great in all honesty and turn it around like that? I saw George in a new light after that, and I know John did too. For years after, whenever he got on my nerves a bit or wanted to do something I wasn’t keen on, a voice inside me would say ‘If George was right about the tie joke, what else might he be right about?’ It’s like, I wasn’t all that keen on putting Isn’t It A Pity on Revolver at first, but then that voice kicked in: ‘He knows what he’s doing.’ So on it went, closing track, and was a great success. A few years later I had this song, Hey Jude. I thought it was great but George wasn’t convinced so we ditched it. Things were getting towards the end by then of course. I still think that final album All Things Must Pass holds up pretty well – I was pleased to get a couple of songs on there alongside George’s; Teddy Boy’s always been a great favourite of mine.
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PAUL McCARTNEY: In the early days I used to treat George a bit like a kid brother. ‘Pipe down son, the grown-ups are talking’, y’know? That all changed when George made his famous joke about George Martin’s tie. That moment was just like…’Wow’, y’know? To take such a tense situation, at the end of a session which maybe hadn’t been great in all honesty and turn it around like that? I saw George in a new light after that, and I know John did too. For years after, whenever he got on my nerves a bit or wanted to do something I wasn’t keen on, a voice inside me would say ‘If George was right about the tie joke, what else might he be right about?’ It’s like, I wasn’t all that keen on putting Isn’t It A Pity on Revolver at first, but then that voice kicked in: ‘He knows what he’s doing.’ So on it went, closing track, and was a great success. A few years later I had this song, Hey Jude. I thought it was great but George wasn’t convinced so we ditched it. Things were getting towards the end by then of course. I still think that final album All Things Must Pass holds up pretty well – I was pleased to get a couple of songs on there alongside George’s; Teddy Boy’s always been a great favourite of mine.
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Fascinating post about what was planned for, and left off, Anthology...

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Preliminary Anthologies
Leaked, confidential EMI documents have come to light, revealing early stages of the development of the three Anthology albums. Star-Club tracks were initially planned before they were eventually s…
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